From: Martin Sharon Date: 2009-04-27T12:38:11+09:00 Subject: Creating directory and its files Hi there: I want to create a directory and create files under it. I can use FileUtils.mkdir_p ARGV[0] to create a directory, however if the directory already exist, program will generate error messages: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `mkdir': File exists - ETFlist (Errno::EEXIST) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:in `fu_mkdir' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:217:in `mkdir_p' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:215:in `reverse_each' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:215:in `mkdir_p' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:201:in `each' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:201:in `mkdir_p' Please tell me how to solve this problem. Thank you so much. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.